On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:42 AM, inhahe <inh...@gmail.com> wrote: > maybe that thing in python 3 that someone mentioned is the answer, but > otherwise i always think Python should admit something like this: > > a, b, c, *d = list > > i.e. if list were [1,2,3,4,5], you'd get a=1, b=2, c=3, d=[4, 5] > > not that that solves the None problem, though i don't have any feature > suggestions that would address that. > > Maybe instead of Python working this way:
>>> a, b = xrange(10) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: too many values to unpack it should work this way: >>> a, b = xrange(10) >>> print a, b 0 1 and then they could include something in itertools that automatically fills extras with None, like Peter Otten's implementation but without having to pass it a value for the number of assignments, i.e.: a, b, c = itertools.ifill(list) with None being the default fill value, but if we wanted 1 to be, we could do a, b, c = itertools.ifill(list, 1)
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